Chara Fisher Jackson
Legal Director
Chara Jackson has served as the Legal Director of the ACLU Foundation of Georgia
since 2008. Chara brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to the
work of seeking justice and civil liberties for Georgians. In many ways, this
is a return home for Chara, because she has been a part of the ACLU of Georgia
for many years, having clerked here as a law student 1995. Chara also served
on the ACLU of Georgia Board of Director and Executive Committee before leaving
for a stint at the ACLU of North Carolina. Her responsibilities as Legal Director
include litigation, public education, and facilitating a civil liberties seminar
at a local law school.
Chara attended Oglethorpe University and the College of William and Mary School
of Law, graduating with her Juris Doctor in 1997. She served as the Executive
Director of the Supreme Court of Georgia's Commission on Equality. Her responsibilities
included developing continuing legal education programs, facilitating public
hearings, developing the interpreter certification program and promoting access
to justice initiatives.
She served as the first Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Black
Women Attorneys Civil Pro Bono Project, recruiting volunteer attorneys to assist
imprisoned mothers with civil legal matters. She has also served as Membership
Director for the American Institute for Managing Diversity.